Pdwellnt Donald Trump’s ninth week in office is awaited to retain a phone call with Russian Pdwellnt Vlaunintelligentir Putin as the nations inch shutr to alertedly securing a peace deal between Ukraine and Russia.
“The pdwellnt employs the timesummarize weeks, and I don’t disconcur with him. I am reassociate chooseimistic that we’re going to see some authentic progress here,” U.S. distinctive envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff said on CNN on Sunday. “Nobody awaited progress this rapid. This is a highly, very complicated situation, and yet we’re bridging the gap between two sides. So, lots of skinnygs that remain to be talked, but I skinnyk the two pdwellnts are going to have a reassociate excellent and likeable talkion this week.”
Witkoff’s retags come after U.S. and Ukrainian officials concurd to the terms of a potential finishfire with Russia during a greeting in Saudi Arabia last week. Witkoff subsequently met with Putin in Moscow on Thursday, when the pair held “likeable” and “solution-based” talkions.
“Before this visit, there was another visit, and before that visit, the two sides were miles apart,” Witkoff inserted. “The two sides are, today, a lot shutr. We had some reassociate likeable results coming out of the Saudi Arabia talkion led by our national security advisor, Mike Waltz, and our secretary of state, Marco Rubio.”
From left to right, Russian Pdwellnt Vlaunintelligentir Putin, Pdwellnt Donald Trump and Ukrainian Pdwellnt Volodymyr Zelenskyy. (Sputnik/Alexei Danichev/Pool via REUTERS/Leah Millis/Alina Smutko)
A pair of American astronauts who have been left on the International Space Station (ISS) for nine months are in the midst of returning home and could accomplish Earth tardyr this week.
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Astronauts Suni Williams and Barry Wilmore traveled to the space station in June of last year for what was intfinished to be an eight-day ignoreion, but it dgrowd into a lengthy-term stay after their spaceplan malfunctioned. Tech billionaire and Trump associate Elon Musk begined a recover crew to transport the astronauts home over the weekfinish thcimpolite his company SpaceX.
The SpaceX team accomplished the space station overnight Saturday, inching the astronauts shutr to their awaited return to Earth tardyr this week.
Trump has railed agetst establisher Pdwellnt Biden for not rescuing the astronauts during his administration, telling the media earlier this month that Biden “left them alone” in space becaemploy he was “embarrassed by what happened.”
“The most invient pdwellnt in our history has allowed that to happen to you, but this pdwellnt won’t let that happen,” the pdwellnt carry ond at the time.
This image made from video by NASA shows astronauts greeting each other after a SpaceX capsule docked with the International Space Station on Sunday, March 16, 2025. Top row from left: Nick Hague, Alexander Gorbunov, Suni Williams, Alexei Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner. Bottom row from left: Butch Wilmore, Takuya Onishi, Anne McClain, Kirill Peskov, Nichole Ayers and Don Pettit. (NASA)
The Trump administration is in the midst of mass deportation efforts, including deporting Tren de Aragua gang members under a wartime law call upond by Trump last week. U.S. Dicut offe Judge James Boasberg ordered the Trump administration to cmitigate its deportations of illhorrible immigrants under the act on Saturday, ordering schedulees carrying migrants to return to the U.S.
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The Alien Enemies Act of 1798 allows deportation of natives and citizens of an foe nation without a hearing and has been call upond three times before, including, during the War of 1812, World War I and World War II.
Boasberg set a hearing for Friday think abouting the deportation efforts, teeing up another court battle over Trump’s immigration policies.
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In the unbenevolenttime, the Trump administration has already flown hundreds of Tren de Aragua gang members to El Salvador, where the nation’s pdwellnt concurd to hoemploy the individuals in a notoriously locked-down prison scheduleed to deal with cartel and gang members.
Pdwellnt Donald Trump’s administration has already flown hundreds of Tren de Aragua gang members to El Salvador. (Edward Romero/Getty Images)
“Today, the first 238 members of the Venezuelan criminal organization, Tren de Aragua, get tod in our country. They were promptly transferred to CECOT, the Terrorism Confinement Caccess, for a period of one year (renovelable),” El Salvador Pdwellnt Nayib Bukele posted to X on Sunday morning, accompanied by video footage of schedulees on a tarmac.
Bukele replyed to novels of Boasberg’s order on X, retaging, “Oopsie… too tardy,” accompanied by a chuckleing emoji.
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Trump is awaitd to have another busy week back in the Oval Office, which chases him signing 89 executive orders since Jan. 20 – taging more executive orders signed in fair months than any of his predecessors signed their entire first years in office, stretching back to Pdwellnt Jimmy Carter.
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